A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Speech Errors in Kiswahili

Abstract Due to the lack of cohesive data in linguistics revealing how human brain functions, researchers make use various disciplines including biology, neuroscience and psycholinguistics investigate relationship between language brain. Within purview psycholinguistics, this study presupposes optimality theory Levelt’s speech production, order analyse errors committed by non-brain damaged speakers Kiswahili. These are mistakes made inadvertently during episodes normal articulation. Speech a natural universal phenomenon across all languages. Alongside conventions constituting games, can provide insightful evidence intricate processes mental lexicon essential production generally. It is noteworthy that bulk analysed were premature cut-offs, since corrected their after errors.